YoWindow in Simplified Chinese

[Byrne]

I like YoWindow very much,so I translate the language file to Simplified Chinese。
I hope it canbe Included in the next version.

Update:The main interface does not support double-byte character set。

[par]

Hey, Byrne!

I have received an email from you, but I was not able to answer because the message just didn't deliver to your email address.

I have already added your Translation to the program and you may enjoy it in the release build.

There is a huge technical problem with Simplified Chinese in YoWindow.
The problem is with the main interface.
The text in the main interface displayed with a special nice font.
And we can display that text if for every character used in the program a picture is created.

For Simplified Chinese alphabet we get 5 Megabytes of extra character picture data.
That makes our program to grow from 1 Megabyte to 6 Megabytes.
It loads slowly.
So we just cannot simply include Simplified Chinese in YoWindow.
However, the menu and the options are translated fine.

I need time to find a solution for displaying Simplified Chinese in the main interface.

Excuse me for the stupid question.
How many characters are used in Simplified Chinese?
Can we shorten that number for YoWindow?

I want to thank you for the hard work you have done to translate YoWindow to Chinese.
Very well done!

[Byrne]

The YoWindow commonly used characters of the Simplified Chinese is less 100.
If the YoWindow main interface support UTF-8，so it's maybe can displayed the Simplified Chinese.

My Email:maxbyrne#Gmail.com

[par]

Yes, YoWindow displays the characters with UTF-8.

But there is a technical problem with Flash Player we use.
In short the problem is the following.
We use a non-standard font for text for the main interface.
Flash requires that every single character used in the text be converted to an image and added to the program.

If there are only 100 characters, that is very good.
Will you send me an email enlisting all the characters?
I will include the images for them to YoWindow and that will make the main interface displayed correctly.
And of course you have to translate main interface strings additionally.

[Byrne]

The characters of Simplified Chinese.
I Hope useful to YoWindow .

[par]

Wow!

I have added the 100 characters to YoWindow and that seems to work.
The "visibility" and "Observed N min ago" strings are displayed now.

You may continue to translate YoWindow to Chinese, and I hope all the strings will be displayed successfully.
Download the latest RC from this page to have the characters displayed
http://repkasoft.com/rc.html

Thank you!

Do you want me to add your name to the translators list in the About dialog?

[Byrne]

Hi,par!

The new RC is displayed successfully to Chinese.

After the test,I found the Omission of words.

So, I update the characters and the lang files.

[par]

Byrne, I have added the characters and updated the translation.
Check out the new RC.
Hope all the words are in place.

Thank you very much!

One more thing, you may translate the installaller so any Chinese speaking person would be able to install YoWindow easily.
Follow our guide.
http://yowindow.com/locguide.html#installer

I will add Chinese flag soon on the site.

[Byrne]

par,I have translated the installaller to Chinese,and fix the words translation of the language file.
Now,the words displayd is successful.
Maybe there have Omission in translation,I‘ll update as soon as possible.

par:Do you want me to add your name to the translators list in the About dialog?
me:haha,the answer is yes.

[par]

Thanks!
I have updated the installer.
See new RC.